[Gllug] cam phone to communicate w pc via usb cable

[Will Napier]

Hi, I am non-technical and think I may have bitten off rather more than I  
can chew. I have just bought a usb data cable for my Samsung E700 mobile  
phone, and I want to transfer photos. Following some online advice I added  
the following line to /etc/fstab : none /proc/bus/usb  usbdevfs defaults 0  
0. I then mounted the proc filesystem: mount /proc/bus/usb. I have updated  
to the latest version of gphoto2 using synaptic. I have verified that I  
have hotplug. When I used synaptic to install gphoto2, a message which I  
wasn't expecting but mentioned usermap being added. I suspect this was an  
automatic happening of what the online advice said I would have to do:  
"plug in camera and add the output of gphoto2 --print-usb-usermap to  
/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap". My camera was plugged in to the usb at the  
time. However I have looked in /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap, but I have no  
idea whether anything has actually been added there, certainly not in the  
name of my phone. Retreating to the GUI of gtkam, I clicked on 'add'  
camera, and am invited to enter the extended path of the port that I want  
to use. Please say if this is all too newbie, but is there a simple answer  
to this? What might I put as the path, and would this be likely to enable  
the transfer of photos? With thanks for any help or pointers to  
information.

Will

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